Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-02-09
DOES BRIGHAM LIVE


bis delay is easily accounted for.
DOES BRIGHAM LIvEY
Sensational Dispatch Concerning the Re-
surrection of the saintiiest Of the Latter
Day saints.
ALincoln, Neb., telegram announces
that Brigham Young, the unholy pres
ident OF the Mormon church Of Salt
Lake, 10 alive. Years ago IL was sup
posed that his body had been con.
signed 10 the sepulchre, but now o
story 10 told that has o tendency to
shock the credulty Of the most sus-
ceptible. But the apparent authentic.
ity of the story will remove FROM the
minds Of many all ideas of sophistry.
Several citizens OF that city who
knew Young In Salt Lake during the
hslcyon days of Mormonism have seen
him within the past thirty six hours,
and they are not Of callow stripe.
Truth IL stranger than fiction and
murder will out. Two miles south Of
that city is palstial residence owned
by an English gentleman long since
identified with the Mormon church.
The residence has been untenanted
for the last two years, save by an old
servant, o man named White, who
was connected with the Jezrels, Of
London, o sect similar TO the Nor
mons. He claimed he was defrauded
by them out Of his property, and lat
terly became converted 10 the Nor
mon faith. He was considered q
Trustworthy man, and was, therefore,
partially through necessity, taken into
the con ntidence of the leaders of the
Mormon church of Zion, which, &C
cording to his statements, IL about TO
perpetrste fraud TO which he is un-
willing to become q party. He says:
1.-TWO months ago there arrived ut the
mansion an old gentleman bearing
letters from my master in London,
the purport of which was to obey bis
every wish and to keep his presence
q secret TO all except t..ose to whom
he saw fit to reveal himself. Within
q week persons began TO arrive at the
house In twos and threes. They were
from Salt Lake City, and held long
whispered consultations with the
mysterious guest. At first | did not
care who or what he was, until little
by little I gathered from stray re.
marks that he was Q persoL OF note,
and soon after the truth burst upon
me that he was none other than
Bringbam Young, the great prophet
of our church, who 10 TO apparently be
rpsurrecled from the dead and preach
TO the people of ZiJn as one having
returned from the grave 70 tell what
lies beyond. That his death and
burial was o deception will soon b.
seen by the whole world while thou
sands Of his ignorant believers bow Of
bis fe / and he dictates to them theil
ways Of lite. My guests visitors are
men Of high standing, % their ap
pearsnce indicates, and Il was In con
versatiop with one of them that
. learned the truth. He supposed from
the way / talked that knew that my
, suspicions were verified, only my In
! formant said Brigham Young hat
, risen from bis grave In Salt Lake ant
, was instructing bis disciples here IL
order to prepare the people for tn
. great event of his coming. My only
D reason for telling these facts 10 that
. am an old man, with but little to gail
!. In this world. and do not want 10 SCI
! q people deluded a. have been. Th'
Jezrels absorbed my competence, and
, now the Mormons have broken my
faith.n The old man told the story
with q sincerity that warranted
further investigation. and {
! merchant, who formerly did bus
ipess In Salt Lake, drove out te
, the mansion this afternoon and
raped at the door, receiving no 70
Spouse he started around the house q
apply at the rear, when through bay
window he saw the form and features
, OF an old man, who sat enjoying q sur
bath. As he WAS unaware OF his pres
ence the merchant approached within
few feet of the window, scanning th'
old mans face closely and, stepping
back, Immediately pronounced III,
man to be Brigham Young, who's
. marked features he had often studie,
= i'm Salt Lske, which once seen, he says
can never be forgotten. For O fev
moments the figure sat silently, thel
raised his hand In wearied way to hi
brow, revealing q scar sbout the wris
that still further establishes his identI
ty. IL Is a well known fact that IN
elders of the Mormon church throuh
out Utsh aud Arizona have @
J late been preaching the returl
Of the prophet. This. together Wit
the fact that u was claimed by o 81
Louis man some months ago tbs
Young was seen aud recognized Il
London; that . number OF prominen
Mormons have lately been seen upo
the streets Of London; that importsn
legislation u about TO oe enscteo 70 10
detriment Of the Norman church, ant
. the veil Of mystery with which th
prophets death has alwps been shroud
, ed, make u almost certain that 70
Mormon banuen thronghsut Uhl
will soon BE- uufurisd. announcing tns
A a. A.